Printed fabric



y 1935. A. w. BAYLIS 2,002,359

PRINTED FABRIC Filed April 25, 1933 INVENTOR ALBERT N. BAYL 5M Aha? ATTORNEY Patented May 21, 1935 NIT D STATES f PATENT OFFICE PRINTED FABRIC i I Albert w. Baylis, 'Scarsdale, s. JY. Application April 25, 1933, serial No. 667,172

17 claims. (or. 2s-32) z y This inventionrelates to printed fabrics, and theparticular rearrangement of the threads to a method of production thereof. involved in this invention, for two or more dis- It is an objectof the invention to produce, by a tinct warps, each for a distinct fabric, and eachsingle continuous operation, using a printing roll of which maydisplay substantially the same de- 5 substantially only of the width of the fabricto sign. q i 5 beproduced from, the warps, a plurality of sep- ,In the oommerce of printing fabrics, the cost .arate warps. Bythis invention, warp threads, of the operationv is proportionately, and many printed as a single Warp, after completion of the timespeven disproportionately, greater for any printing process, are made effective to produce increaseimparted to the width of the fabric so a plurality of fabrics, .eachof which is of the width produced. well another element of suchcost 10 of fabrics for which the printed roll is intended, is the length-of the-run of warp threads which and each of which is substantially, the full length must be. passedthrough the printing machine. of, the, ;,warp run through the printing machine. Not an element of that cost, at least to any ma- Each fabric, by this process, may even have a subterial degree, is the number of threads included 1'5 $tantially identical design left as a result of the within awarp. By;this;invention,,in the same ,imprint on the warp threads as originally arprinting run, which normally is applied only to ranged. produce asetof printed ,warp threads for a In the customary method of warp printing, a single warp of a predetermined width, and those roll of substantially the width of the fabric to be threads, disposed at that width, disclosing a def- .20 woven is engraved with the design in itsexact inite design, more than one set of warps, each, proportionsasit will finally appear on the fabric. -if desired, with substantially the same design, The warp threads, fed tothe printing machine, may be produced. Consequently, a marked reare held in substantially the same lateral spaced duction in the printing, cost is accomplished. relationship relative to each other as that which To facilitate this printing operation, in carryhey will assumein the fabric as finally woven. ing out certain of the, features of this invention, 25

"This spacing, to the eye, may appear slight, and the printing roll may have its printing surface even non-existent; yet there are distinct interengraved to, a. sharper degree than is normally stices to provide for the spacing which results, found necessaryfduring the customary printin .-weaving, with the introduction of the filler ing operations. Bythisdevice, the threads, at

,30 t t is 0f he threads, the efthe time of imprint, become more deeply imfi cy 0f ep to a large t. depenrbedded in, or otherwise come into more effecdent, Penetration through-the thr ad of the .tive cooperation with, the dye, retained by the y pp i urin h pr s in h p t. cut-out surface. The result is a deposit of b a i p d b getting he dye down dye on thethreadand its-penetration into the around the sides of the thread in such a relative fibres -to such degree that,,even though the spac- 35 e n The r r h penetration. h ,ing of threads may be decreased below that orthe Combination of y a .dinarily considered necessary, the imprint is as f l t m efiective is p r good as, if not an improvement over, the re- Printing, either of woven fabrics or. ofthe sult'of thenormal printing s e 4 0 warp threads, before weaving, has very little in For printing warp threads-accordmg t this ,40

common with ordinary printing processes applied to such. materials as paper. The threads, given the required spacing, receive the dye from .a roller in a manner such that not only a face, but pact than m prmtlng i a warps. The rethe entire periphery and the internal portions, vlatiotlship ofthis new arrangement that i the 45 of the thread receive the dye when an imprint relatlvepompa'ctpiess its determinedby the num- -is-made.,-. In this invention, it is an object to p i e n warps-to be derived from this utilize the customary printing roller of the length Single m r -Th r r it desired to used in printing a fabric of ordinary width; b t secure two warps from the single, simultaneous process, the threads defining the warp are disposed in a relationship to each other more com- ;59 with such a roller, the threads to be printed are aiwq a threads, are compacted into arranged so that this roller, intended normally for the Same Spacing n y taken p by a sin printing, at a single operation, only a single warp warp thread; three w p e three W p for a single fabric of substantially that same threads are so compacted. Therefore, as many widtlnwill produce threads so printed, not for a times the normal number of warp threads are single warpfor a single fabric, but, in accordance disposed in a ,warp for the single printing run design.

as the number of individual warps to be produced from that single run.

At any time after the compacted warp has been passed through the machine, as, for instance, before fixing the dye, the printed Warp threads may be divided up into as many groups as the number or warp threads were increased. In one application of the invention, the warp threads are separated in a regular sequence; they may be. reeled upon warp beams; or iia continuous operation be desired, immediately .on such separation, the threads, in separated relationship, may be fed to different weaving ma-- chines to produce a number of different fabrics.

For instance, if two warps are to be produced by the single printing, then every second thread,

is separated from the single printedwarp, and then, still retaining its sequential association with other threads separated with it, .islwound upon a beam, or is fed for the next successive steps.

In the particular process just detailed, even with this removal of warp threads, the threads remaining carry the imprint to such degree that the delineation of the design, and this is most markedly a fact where'thedesign is of a spreadout character,-although1the process has equal application wherethe design is of a fine-line nature, is sharp, and substantially completely'the eifect of the'original design, as if it-had been imprinted normally, appears. "The' change of imprint between contiguous threads is, "by the compacting m 'the warp for printing, made so slight that each such thread imparts to the particular warp into'which -it-is'separatedsubstantially identically the same detail of the design. For instance', when the warp threads have been separated into two ormore warps, and the threads have been spread out to the normal width of the fabric, ready for weaving, the final warps thus produced display substantially the sam'e design as that on the original warp. In this particular' operation, it is not even necessary,when

engraving the'deslgn on the print roller, 'to'distort that design. The crowding of the threads in the warp to be printed, together with-deep"- er engraving of'the roller, cooperate sufficiently for the purpose of leaving adeflnite imprint on those threads within a definite area of the same By distorting the design on the printing roller, as well as compacting the threads, in the manner stated, the production of a plurality of printed warps maybe attained. In this case, entire sections of warp threads are separated as units" from the warp after printing. Eachseparate unit, in itself, is a warp which, whenlthe'threads are brought into the normal position, may be used to produce a warp-printed applied in many varied relations, without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed -inye'ntion,- theillustrations oi processes herein appearing being merely to show some practical applications of theinvention.

On the drawing, in which the same reference characters refer to the same parts throughout, and in which are disclosed the illustrations of processes:

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation to illustrate diagrammatically apparatus for carrying out a printing process embodying the invention;

Fig; 2'is a plan view of the diagrammatically illustrated apparatus of Fig. 1.;

Fig. 3 is a View in perspective of apparatus designed to carry out the invention in modified form; and

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view, transversely of, and at right angles to the direction of, the

longitudinal axis of a printing roll, engraved in accordance with the invention.-

In one application of the invention, warp threads H] are disposed, as customarily, in order to form an original warp i 2 for printing. The threads may be wound together on a beam M, or in any other manner retained in a proper assembly in relation to each other. In this instance, the threads leading away from the beam are shown threaded through a proper ree'd Hi to guide them into a proper relationship to each other in passing through a printing machine l8 the engraved roller 20 of which is there made eifective upon the threads. Beyond the t machinathe threads may be assembled in a suitable manner to be passed finally to some such device as another reed 22. Reed 22 may include a plurality of sets 24 and 26 of eyes by means of which the threads, after printing, may

be guided to beams 28 and 30. The several steps are shown as those of a continuous operation. Although possible, and also facilitating the illustration of the process, it is to be understood that, in preferred operation, the warp threads, retained together by temporary filler thread or picks, will be printed. Thereafter,

with the removal of the temporary filler threads,

the separation of the thread onto the beams 28 and 36 will be effected. In the structure here disclosed, the arrangement produces, after the printing of the single original warp l2 and the separation thereof, two final warps 32 and 34.

' In the first step of arranging threads in, there are disposed double the normal number of threads customarily run through under a roller 20 for the width of fabric for which that roller is intended. Reed 16 is disposed so that threads l0, winding oif'bearn M and then travelling to the printing machine-for proper cooperation with roller 20, will be retained in a proper relationship so that each pair of the threads will be pressed into the same space that one, in the normal arrangement, previously had assumed.

In order to cooperate properly in efiectuating the printing operation, roller 20, as shown in Fig. 4;, may have-engraved areas 36, for receiving the dye, made deeper than normally. Then threads, brought up to'and passing in proper association to the roller, will be pressed sharply into the recesses of the engraved area, and by that step, becoming more closely related to the dye in the recesses, will more efiiciently become impregnated.

After the imprint has been made, and the threads move beyond roller Eli, they may be brought into association with reed 22 in the manner above referred to, here to be selectively directed to beams 28 and 36. It is alsopossible to guide-thethreads, during their separation, di-

rectly to weaving machinea oriotherwise to process them as'a. direct part of a continuous operation. Intthe separatingoperation, one set of alternatethreads 38 goto and are wound upon beam 28, while the other threads 40 are wound upon beam 5H). In this separating operation, the threads may. remain substantially parallel to each other; yet, by the removal of intervening threads, the threads wound on .the beams or fedto the weaving machines are in a. proper. arrangement for weaving. Evenwith this elimination from the warpof so many threads, still, since the resultof the crowding, with theadded efiiciency derived from the deep imprint, is that elements of the design imprinted on and carried by adjacent threads 38 and .40 will vary but slightly from each other, the. final assembly of threads 38, while to a slight degreedifferenhwill bear a substantially accurate delineation 'of the design disclosed by the assembly of threads 40, as well as of the'design as originally engraved on' roller 20 andimprinted on-Warp 12; Final-warps 32 and 34thereby, by the single printing operation and the subsequent separation, have hadimparted to them substantially the same design. I

In the construction shown on Fig. 3, threads 42 may 'be'made to assume substantially the same relative dispositionpreliminary to printing. Roller 44, however, instead of being engraved with but a design for a" single fabric and substantially of the same form'as would be used if but a single warp were being printed,'in this case is engraved "with two" distinct designs 46 and 48. These definal design to bereprodu'ced'by being compressed.

The threads to be printed by such a roller and which finally will be used to produce two warps, in this case, are also compressed into' a space approximately one-half of that which they normally wouldassume, and tea width'substantially that of one of the designs on the" roller. After' the threads have passed printing roller 44 and have been printed, they maybe brought to a reed 50 at whi'chthey are divided into two sets 52 and 54. The two sets of threads are diverged, beyondthe reed, onto beams 56 and 58. It is also possible to effect the division of the warps as a part of a continuous process, as, for instance, by passing the threads continuously to'the weaving machines for proper association of filler threads, or for such other processing as may be desired. Before passing'either to'the beam or to the weaving machine, the threads, after they have been divided into the distinct sets, are brought into a normal disposition for warp threads in producing fabrics. This will result in each set of threads occupying, in the newly formed warps, substantially twice as much space as during the printing process;

Many other changes could be effected in the methods of operation set forth, and in the particular means for' effectu'ating those operations,

and in specific details thereof without substantial- 1y departing from the invention intended tobe defined in the claims, the specific description herein being'merely to illustrate actual methods for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed a predetermineddesign, andthen sepdividual warp maintaining the same succession asin the original relationship.

2. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, inwhich the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads to produce a warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads from each other and into groups to leave the effect in each group of the predetermined design but so that no pair of theoriginalwarp threads remain in the original relationship to each other.

3. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon,

in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a. plurality of threads to produce a warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads from each other and into groups to leave the effect in each group of the predetermined design.

4. Inthe art ofmanufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, 'which comprises: arranging a. plurality of threadsto produce a warp forthe Weavingof a fabric,..printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the'printedv warp threads into a plurality of individual warps each of which includes the original warp threads not in the original relationship to each other but in the same succession as in the original relationship.

5. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads to produce a warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined designed, and then separating the printed warpthreads from each other in a predetermined succession and into groups to define a plurality of distinct warps each having'the effect of the predetermined design but so that nopair of the originalwarp threads remain in the original relationship to each other.

6. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

ranging a plurality of threads to produce a warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formeda predetermined design, and then separating' the printed warp threads from each other in a predetermined succession and into groups to define a plurality of distinct warps each having the effect of the predetermined-design.

.7. In the art of manufacturingwoven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which thedesign, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads to produce an original warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warpso formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a. plurality of warps each consisting of alternate original warp threads maintained in the 'original relationship to each other so that each face thereof substantially similar to the orig+ inally imprinted design.

BJZIH the-art of 'manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads to produce a warp for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a plurality of individual warps, each of the individual warps consisting of original warp threads but only of non-consecutive threads having a predetermined sequential order in the original warp, said nonconsecutive threads being maintained in the originalrealtlonship to each other so that each of the newly defined warps has a design on the face thereof substantially similar to the originally imprinted design.

"9; In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

ranging a plurality of threads "to produce a warp 'for the weaving of a fabric, printing on the warp so formed apredetermincd design, then separating the printed warp threads into a plurality of individual warps, each of the individual warps consistingof original warp threads but only of non-consecutive threads having a'predetermined sequential order in the original warp, said nonconsecutive threads being maintained in the originalrelationship t'oeach other so that each of the newly defined warps has a design on the face thereof substantially similar tothe originally imprinted design, and interweaving the newly de fined warps to produce a plurality of fabrics each of which hassubstantially the same surface des1gn. I

10; In the art of manufacturing Woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

ranging a plurality of threads crowded together in excess of the usual number for printing threads in the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric, subjecting the warp so formed to deep-cut roll printing to dye all the threads with a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a'pluin the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, printing on the Warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads, rearranged in a more widely spacedrelation to each other than when printed, 'into a plurality of warps each newly arranged war-p being of the same effective width as the original warp and carrying a complete printed design. a

12. 'In the art of manufacturing woven fabric having predetermineddesigns depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

of the newly defined warps has a design on the ranging a plurality of threads crowded together in excess of the usualspacing for printing threads for the" production of a printed Warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width,

printing on thewarp so formed a predetermined design, then separating the printed warp threads, rearranged in a more widely spaced relation to each other-than when printed, into a plurality of warps no one of which includes two or more of the original warp threads in the original relationship to each other but each newly arranged warp being of the same effective width as the original warp, and interweaving the newly defined warps to produce a plurality of fabrics each having substantially the same surface design.

13. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics .havingpredetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads crowded together toposition in the space provided for a single thread in ordinary operations threads to a density of a proportional relationship a multiple of the number of threads customarily used for the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a plurality of individual warps in which the threads are positioned in the normally spaced relationship for weaving, each of said individual warps carrying a complete printed design.

114. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics ,havingpredetermined designs depicted thereon,

in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads crowded together to position a multiple number of the threads in the space provided for a single thread in ordinary operations for the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a plurality of individual warps in which the threads are positioned in the normally spaced relationship for weaving, the number of individual warps so produced being the same as the multiple number of the crowded threads, each of said individual warps carrying a complete printed design.

15. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, inwhich the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: arranging a plurality of threads crowded together to position in the space provided for a single thread in ordinary operations threads to a density ina multiple proportional relationship to the number of threads customarily used for the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, printing on the warp so formed a predetermined design, and then separating the printed warp threads into a multiple number of individual warps in which the threads are positioned in the normally spaced relationship for weaving, the multiple of the number of individual warps so produced being the same as the multiple of the proportional relationship of the density, each of said individual warps carrying a complete printed design.

16. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

ranging aplurality of threads crowded together to position in the space provided for a single thread in ordinary operations threads to a density in a multiple proportional relationship to the number of threads customarily used for the production of a printed warp for the weaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, subjecting the warp so formed to deep-cut roll printing to produce on all the threads a predetermined design, and then diverging the printed warp threads to define a multiple number of individual warps in which the threads are positioned in the normally spaced relationship for weaving, the multiple of the number of individual warps so produced being the same as the multiple of the proportional relationship of the density, each of said individual warps carrying a complete printed design.

17. In the art of manufacturing woven fabrics having predetermined designs depicted thereon, in which the design, at least in part, is produced by a process of printing, which comprises: ar-

ranging a plurality of threads crowded together to position in the space provided for a single thread in ordinary operations threads to a density in a multiple proportional relationship to the number of threads customarily used for the production of a printed warp for theweaving of a fabric of a predetermined width, subjecting the warp so formed to deep-cut roll printing to produce on all the threads a predetermined design, and then diverging the printed" warp threads to define a multiple number of individual warps in which the threads are positioned in the normally spaced relationship for weaving, the multiple of the number of individual warps so produced being the same as the multiple of the proportional relationship of the density but each newly arranged warp being of the same effective width as the original warp, each of said individual warps carrying a complete printed design.

ALBERT W. BAYLIS. 

